Queen mary 1 biography

‘You have four certain and open enemies: the heretics and schismatics, the rebels and adherents of the duke of Northumberland, the king of France and Scotland, and the Lady Elizabeth.’ the Imperial ambassador Renard to Queen Mary, 1553

Mary I was the first Queen of England to be crowned in her own right.

Mary Tudor was born on February 18, 1516, at the Palace of Placentia.

She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Mary was a devout Catholic and spent much of her early life in the care of her grandmother, Margaret Beaufort. She was invested as Princess of Wales in 1525.

Queen Mary I – Biography

The sad life of England’s first female ruler is rendered even more tragic in comparison with her half-sister and successor’s reign.

Poor Mary Tudor, destined – like her half-brother and predecessor – to languish between those two giants of English